Top Ten Greatest Americans of ALL time:

[Rich Lewis]

1) Ben Franklin
2) Thomas Jefferson
3) Thomas Paine
4) Roosevelt
5) Truman
6) JFK
7) Martin Luther King
8) Edward Burk
9) Henry Ford
10) Bell


Different areas, but great men, every single one.

[Catholic Sensation]

1. Mine

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Franklin Roosevelt
4. Robert F. Kennedy
5. Martin Luther King
6. Thomas Edison
7. Mohammed Ali
8. Ben Franklin
9. Harry Truman
10. Eleanor Roosevelt

not in any particular order, just put numbers next to the names so i could make sure I listed ten

[flowomo]

2. who is Edward Burk? And which Roosevelt?

[Cheswick2.0]

3. and not a vagina amoung them

:hi:

Sorry, rabid feminazi had to check in!

[El Supremo]

8. She was #4 on the first list. n/t

[tom_paine]

4. Wow, both guys and no one mentions George Washington?

The man who refused power, an event almost without equal in the entire annals of human history?

The General who wanted to be a Lion, but learned to play the part of the cunning fox to victory?

I'd put him in mine...maybe I will.

[Kazak]

5. Kurt Vonnegut...

He'd make my list anyway.

[El Supremo]

6. Why do people leave George Washington out of these lists?

Man, he was the most important of all the founding fathers. He won the Revolution, he defined the executive branch.

[crushbush04]

7. George Washington

has to be on this list. He rejected an offer to become king of the United States and set the tone for modern democracy by simply relinquishing power. It was unheard of. But this is the basis tenet of any modern democracy - the legal, peaceful transfer of power. Without this, at the time, radical gesture by Washington this country and the world might be very different.

[StephNW4Clark]

9. Alexander Hamilton

Often over-looked and under-rated.

But the main author of the Federalist Papers deserves some DU love.

[Amerpie]

10. No women?

1) Mother Jones
2) Woodie Guthrie
3) Frederick Douglas
4) Susan B. Anthony
5) Clara Barton
6) John Brown
7) FDR
8) John Adams
9) Emmitt Till
10) Noam Chomsky

[GreenArrow]

11. the real top ten

1) Anonymous
2) Anonymous
3) Anonymous
4) Anonymous
5) Anonymous
6) Anonymous
7) Anonymous
8) Anonymous
9) Anonymous
10)Anonymous

Ordinary people who do their work and live their lives out of the spotlight.

Maybe it just depends on how one defines great.

[Blue-Jay]

12. What's so great about Art Bell?

Kidding!

I like your list, but I'd probably throw Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass in there somewhere.

[MikeG]

13. I don't see Ditka on that list anywhere. How come?